Gaius Sosius

Gaius Sosius (92 BC-) was a Consul of the Roman Republic in 32 BC.

Biography
Gaius Sosius was born in Rome in 92 BC, and he served as quaestor in 66 BC and praetor in 49 BC. Upon the start of Caesar's Civil War, he joined the Optimates, and, upon the flight of Pompey to Greece, he returned to Rome and submitted to Julius Caesar. After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, he joined the party of Mark Antony, who appointed him as governor of Syria and Cilicia in place of Publius Ventidius Bassus. He was commanded to support Herod the Great against Antigonus II Mattathias, and he captured Jerusalem in 37 BC and made Herod the new Judean ruler. Sosius was awarded a triumph in 34 BC, and he became a consul of the Roman Republic in 32 BC. When civil war broke out between Antony and Octavian, Sosius supported Antony and violently attacked Octavian in the Roman Senate, for which he was forced to flee east. He commanded the left wing of Antony's fleet at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and he managed to escape before being captured and ultimately pardoned by Octavian.